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: I started with the question: "Why isn't there namespaces : in normal languages like English?" A boring and divergent : question. I assume you mean 'natural languages'? Namespaces in natural languages would be something like jargon, dialects or even idiolects. : My answer was: massive fragmentation of society. Like it's not fragged already. : Is it really a 'good thing' to have namespaces in XML? What : ill effect will it have on XML's future? Why can't the : semantic of '<name>' be determined purely by context? What : is wrong with using just <html> to distinguish HTML's use of : 'a' tag? Is the ability to inject attributes from other : namespaces really useful? What is the possitive effect of : having just one namespace? Why can't we have central : registry of XML names? The semantics of <name> can't be determined by context because at the moment, computers aren't good at context (that's why we do it for them by giving them artificial namespaces). You can of course get a person to read the mark-up and apply context to it. As for a central registry, things like namespaces are perhaps best left to evolve openly. Regards, Bill de hOra xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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